Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010126802023 2025:GAU-AS:2912 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : WP(C)/3485/2023 BINOD CH HALOI S/O- LATE GANGA RAM HALOI. R/O- VILLAGE BAR AZARA, P.O- BAR AZARA, DIST- NALBARI, ASSAM, PIN-781334 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANR REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM, DISPUR, GUWAHATI- 781006. 2:THE ASSAM PHARMACY COUNCIL REP. BY THE REGISTER/ SECRETARY HENGRABARI GUWAHATI ROAD 781036 ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : MR C GOSWAMI, Advocate for the Respondent : SC, HEALTH, BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN DEV CHOUDHURY ORDER Date : 19.03.2025 1. Heard Mr. C. Goswami, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. B. Gogoi, learned Standing counsel, Health and Family Page No.# 2/3 Welfare Department, Assam for the respondent Nos. 1 & 2. 2. The petitioner herein is a Registered Pharmacist under the Assam Pharmacy Council. The grievance of the petitioner is that his registration as a Registered Pharmacist is not renewed by the authorities. 3. According to the petitioner, initially, his registration as a Registered Pharmacist was issued vide registration No. 261(P) dated 10.03.1995 which was valid upto 31.12.1995 and thereafter, the same was renewed in the years 1996 & 1997. Subsequently, his registration as a Registered Pharmacist was due under the Assam Pharmacy Council under Registration No. 7675 dated 08.02.1999. Though his registration as a Registered Pharmacist has been renewed duly upto 31.12.2012, thereafter, the same was not renewed by the authorities. 4. An affidavit has been filed by the Pharmacy council, Assam wherein a specific stand has been taken that the Executive Committee of the Assam Pharmacy Council, in its meeting held on 22.06.2018, under resolution No.3, resolved to delete the names of certain pharmacist from the register of Pharmacists of Assam Pharmacy Council, which includes the name of the petitioner. 5. It is also submitted by Mr. B Gogoi, learned standing counsel, Health Department that necessary order shall be issued to the petitioner in terms of the Pharmacy Act, 1948. 6. In view of the aforesaid, this matter has become infructous, as nothing survives to be decided in this writ petition. Accordingly the writ petition stands closed. 7. However, the Pharmacy council shall furnish minutes of Page No.# 3/3 the meeting dated 22.06.2018 to the petitioner. Further, the petitioner shall be at liberty to avail his remedy under the Pharmacy Act, 1948 including the right to appeal. JUDGE Comparing Assistant